Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Thanks to those who pinged me to newly departed freepers. As of last night, the “list” kind of got handed off to me. At the time, I didn’t think much of it and was willing to be “keeper of the list” and would have been happy to maintain a ping list. But after reading 24 hours of posts, I’ve changed my mind. I think it’s time to terminate it.
In my opinion, some are viewing the list and coming to totally inaccurate conclusions about the circumstances of many, if not all, of the departures. Some have entered the end of this thread to suggest reinstatement of certain freepers, without knowing the basis for their departure. Those who have taken the time to read the thread know what happened and it is probably best for the curious ones to go ahead and read the thread themselves. I have seen the list referred to as a “purge”, or of people being banned for supporting Rudy—neither is true. People were banned for a variety of reasons, none of which was supporting Rudy, and several cases were voluntary departures. One person attacked, maligned and carried on for over 500 posts before finally being put out of their misery.
I have also glanced at one of the “other sites” and found that there are a long line of folks, currently not associating with FR, that would be perfectly happy to come use one of their various FR screennames to come here and disrupt. It seems the only thing the list is doing is enabling them to misrepresent what has truly happened here so they can go back and be high-fived by their comrades.
As to comments of this being a blood-letting, or guillotine, I think that is an entirely inaccurate representation. I look at this more as the firing of an employee for attacking and harrassing co-workers, lying to customers, and/or sabotaging the company product—in this case conservatism. That’s my take, anyway.
At this point, I would encourage all those visiting late in this thread, or even those who have lost track about what it was all about, to go back to the original post and heed the message.
Sorry for rambling so long.
You seem to have a comprehension issue right now, Reagan Man; or should I say, “silly man”? Oh, darn, there’s that pesky question mark again. LOL
The rest of your comment to me is not worthy of a response. I have stated my opinions quite clearly and in spite of the fact that you are trying very hard to twist them into your personal pretzel I feel quite confident that most people are smart enough to know what you’re trying to do.
Have a lovely evening.
Makes sense to me...
Feel free!
"Ghoulishness"?!?
Hamsters ate his/her brain stem
On the social issues, I have to agree with you. However, there is a HUGE and SERIES difference between the Dems and Giuliani when it comes to our military and the WOT. So if voting for a Republican (if Giuliani is the candidate) or Democrat won’t make a difference on the social issues, the vast difference will between the two will come down to the WOT. You don’t have to trust me on this. Just do your research and you will clearly see that there IS a difference between the two.
bookmarked
Goodnight, CindyDawg. :)
Hey Knitting!
I know that sully is no longer with us, but for this post he earns the Revisionist History Award for creating the most inaccurate representation of this thread, combined with his childish vitriole.
Sayonara, Sully! You’re fired!
another bkmrk..
You sure it wasn’t gerbils?
Hey jedward!
Folks:
Napkin User has been banned or suspended, I don’t know why. He was the keeper of the StopRudy ping list.
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"This account has been banned or suspended."
LOLOL!!!
I don’t have time to read 12,000 posts, so that list came in handy for keeping up to date. I can see that it was causing more trouble than it was worth though. Rather, stupid sheeple were causing more trouble than it was worth.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Your words and remarks speak for themselves.
The King FReeper has stated his goal was to knock off Rudy Giuliani. Many FReepers support him in that effort. This is a conservative crusade to kill of the most liberal Republican candidate whose ever run for POTUS! A big govt, gun grabbing, gay loving, pro amnesty, abortionist, CFR supporting liberal.
Your stated goal is to vote for Rudy come Nov2008.
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